Xiaomi’s excellent Android phones will come to the US by 2019

In case you couldn’t tell from the headline, I’m a fan of Xiaomi’s phones. They’re well built, they look good (sometimes jaw-droppingly so), perform as advertised and offer tremendous bang for your buck.

Sadly, they haven’t been available in the US – even as the company has expanded distribution to 30 countries over the past few years. But now, Xiaomi’s new senior vice president Wang Xiang, who took over from Hugo Barra after he left in January, says that its phones will likely arrive on American shores by 2019 – if not sooner.